I awhile back posted about 16 plugins I found useful to word press, now I cut the number in half to a slim 8. So now it’s really 8 useful plugins. But since I’m updating an old post, we are using that old url.
Akismet
Anti comment spam, one of the biggest draw backs to blogging. Fight it early and often.
CloudFlare
Cloudflare is an easy CDN solution for FREE. It helps your websites loads faster by bringing the JS scripts and CSS items closer to your users. The pluging helps make sure you get accurate ip addresses and Also fights spam.
Google Analytics for WordPress
Who doesn’t like web stats? This is the big one from google but it’s not good for basic users.
Google XML Sitemaps
Sitemaps are a key to SEO, I use this one because it doesn’t have a link back to the owners site as far as I can tell.. I’ll look into it more though.
StatPress Reloaded
More stats! More web statistics, I like these for the simple stuff.
W3 Total Cache
This plug in speed your website up, taps into cloud flare with out issues. Makes your code smaller, gives strong caches, supports CDN usage for the media library and other images.
WordPress Mobile Pack
Why not have a mobile version of your website? This app does that. Plus you can choose which theme you want to use. Check out mine at m.g1eagle.com on your mobile device.
WordPress SEO
Everyone needs an SEO solution, if your not good with coding and fixing the issues yourself. This app will help with those issues.
